JP2010113605A - Cash processor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily specify a bill storing destination even if a carrying fault is caused when sorting and storing bills managed by respectively different management authorities. <P>SOLUTION: The cash processor for sorting charged bills into change reserves and proceeds which are managed by respectively different management authorities and storing the sorted bills includes: a service unit 17 for receiving charged bills; a discrimination unit 20 for discriminating a money sort of a carried bill; a temporary reserve unit 21 for temporarily reserving discriminated bills; change storages 25, 26 for storing change reserves; a bill storage 23 for storing proceeds; a carrier 30 for carrying bills; and an electromagnetic lock for storage which locks or unlocks an access door to the carrier 30. In the cash processor, bills charged to the service part 17 are discriminated, bills to be allocated to change reserves are temporarily stacked in a temporary reserve unit 21, bills to be allocated to proceeds are temporarily stacked in the service unit 17, and when the proceeds temporality stacked in the service unit 17 are stored in the bill stock 23 after storing the chance reserves temporarily stacked in the temporary reserve unit 21 in change stocks 25, 26, the access door is locked by the electromagnetic lock for storage. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention is installed in a retail store, etc., and has a function of withdrawing cash as a change reserve to a register, and a function of storing cash deposited from a register into sales and change reserves. It is related with the cash processing apparatus provided with.

Generally, in retail stores, a cash processing apparatus is introduced to automatically deposit and withdraw sales and change reserves.
In addition, the money stored in the cash processing equipment is collected by the security company, such as a security company entrusted to transport the sales, from the store and transported to the bank. The change reserves, etc. stored in the cash processing device are under the management of the store (called store management), and each storage is inaccessible without administrative authority. Yes.

When a conventional cash processing apparatus used in such a retail store is deposited in a state where sales and change reserves are mixed at the time of collection from the register, the inserted banknote is denominated in the discrimination section, etc. Are collected and stored in the temporary holding unit, and after confirming the deposit amount, the banknotes drawn from the temporary holding unit are discriminated by the discriminating unit. Based on the result of the discrimination, the change reserve is stored in the change storage. The money is stored in the type, and the banknote storage stores the money corresponding to the sales including the denomination used as change, and stores the sales and the change reserve separately (for example, Patent Document 1). reference.).
JP 2007-286744 A (mainly paragraphs 0014-0020, FIG. 3)

In the case of the normal operation described above, a problem arises because the managers of the stores having the respective management authority and the transport personnel of the security company access the respective storages with the keys provided in the respective storages. There is nothing.
However, in the above-described conventional technique, when a banknote is transported from the temporary storage unit to each storage, a transport failure due to a jam or the like occurs, and when performing a recovery operation, the security management is performed on the transport path. A problem arises because the sales proceeds and the change reserves for store management remain in a mixed state.

  That is, the banknotes present in the cash processing apparatus are banknotes for which the store has administrative authority in principle, but when the security company transports the sales proceeds, the banknote storage in which the sales proceeds are stored in the empty banknote storage Since all bills stored in the bill storage are transferred to the safe for transport, the amount stored as sales and the amount actually transported may be the same amount Since it is necessary to transfer the banknote management authority from the store to the police company when it is confirmed that it will be stored as sales, including banknotes that are transported from the temporary holding section for storage as sales It is to be handled as a banknote that the company has administrative authority.

  For this reason, even if the conveyance failure occurs during the conveyance of the banknotes to the banknote storage for storing the sales proceeds, the banknotes staying on the conveyance path at the time of restoration work are the same denomination (for example, 1,000 yen banknotes). In some cases, it is stored as sales proceeds, and it is stored as change reserves, and these cannot be distinguished by human eyes. There is a problem that it becomes difficult to specify.

In addition, since it is possible for a manager of a store without management authority to touch the sales revenue of the guard management that stays on the transport path at the time of the recovery work of the transport failure, there is a possibility that it may develop into a fraudulent act. is there.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems. Even when a banknote having different management authority such as sales or change reserve is divided and stored, the banknote It is an object of the present invention to provide means for facilitating the identification of the storage location of the banknote and preventing a person who does not have management authority from touching the banknote.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention accepts an inserted banknote in a cash processing apparatus that divides the stored banknote into a banknote with a first management authority and a banknote with a second management authority. A customer service section, a discrimination section that discriminates the denomination of the conveyed banknote, a temporary storage section that temporarily holds the banknotes identified by the discrimination section, a change storage that stores banknotes of the first management authority, A banknote storage for storing banknotes having a second management authority; a transport path for transporting banknotes; and an electromagnetic lock during storage for locking and unlocking an access door to the transport path, to the customer service section The inserted banknote is discriminated by the discrimination section, the banknote allocated to the banknote of the first management authority is allocated to the temporary holding section, the banknote allocated to the banknote of the second management authority is allocated to the customer service section, respectively. Temporarily accumulating banknotes temporarily accumulated in the temporary storage unit for storing the change The banknote temporarily stored in the customer service section after being stored as the banknote with the first management authority is stored in the banknote storage as the banknote with the second management authority. The door is locked.

  As a result, according to the present invention, even when a conveyance failure due to a jam or the like occurs during the storing process of the banknote with the second management authority, a person who does not have the second management authority opens the access door. It is not possible to prevent a person who does not have the second management authority from touching the banknote having the second management authority, thereby preventing an illegal act by a person who does not have the management authority. At the same time, the banknote management authority can be clearly distinguished, and the storage destination of banknotes and the like removed during the restoration work can be easily specified.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of a cash processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a cash processing apparatus according to a first embodiment, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating the front of the cash processing apparatus according to the first embodiment, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a side view of the cash processing apparatus according to the first embodiment. 4 is an explanatory view showing the operation display unit of the first embodiment, and FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing the banknote depositing and dispensing machine of the first embodiment.
1, 2, and 3, 1 is a cash processing apparatus, which is installed in a retail store such as a department store, a supermarket, a convenience store, or a retail store, and is supplied to a register 2 installed in a store in the store. It is an apparatus for managing cash in a store, such as cash (banknotes and coins) and cash collected from the register 2.

In the following description, the change reserve refers to cash that is prepared in advance as change in the register 2 installed in the store in the store before opening the store, and the denomination used as change is changed. Denominations and other denominations are called non-change denominations.
3 is a control part of the cash processing apparatus 1, and controls each part in the cash processing apparatus 1 to execute business processing and the like.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a storage unit that stores programs executed by the control unit 3, processing results by the control unit 3, and the like.
In FIG. 4, 5 is an operation display unit, and display functions and input functions for staff members such as a store manager, an operator of the register 2 and a transportation person in charge of a police company are intensively arranged.
Reference numeral 6 denotes a display unit provided on the operation display unit 5, which includes a display screen such as an LCD, and includes a count result of banknotes deposited on the display screen and a breakdown of the types of change reserves to be withdrawn, It has a function to display a word for prompting treatment.

  Reference numeral 7 denotes an input unit provided on the operation display unit 5 for instructing replenishment buttons for instructing replenishment of change reserves, withdrawal buttons for instructing withdrawal of change reserves, and depositing sales. An input button for selecting a processing type, such as a recovery button for instructing the start of maintenance in the event of a transport failure due to a jam, a confirmation button for instructing that the display content has been confirmed, and the like Various input buttons such as a numeric keypad are provided to input the amount of sales, etc., and it has a function to accept various inputs such as process type selection input, instruction input, and amount input from the staff. ing.

Reference numeral 8 denotes a card handling unit provided in the operation display unit 5, such as a clerk number, a store number, a register number, etc. recorded on a magnetic stripe or IC chip of a clerk card of a clerk who has passed the card handling port 8a. It has a function of reading card information.
In FIG. 1 to FIG. 3, 9 is a printing unit, which has a printer and the like, and has a function of printing and discharging detailed slips such as the history of deposits and withdrawals by the cash processing apparatus 1 and the summation results thereof. ing.

10 is a coin deposit / withdrawal machine, which accepts the coins that have been inserted, discriminates and counts them, classifies them into change reserves and sales, stores them in the storage, and puts the coins of change reserves into the withdrawals, etc. It has a function of paying out from the storage, counting it, and delivering it to the clerk, and is configured to be inserted and removed by a slide mechanism.
11 is a banknote depositing / dispensing machine which accepts inserted banknotes, discriminates and counts them, stores them in change reserves and sales, and feeds the banknotes of change reserves into withdrawals, etc. It has a function of counting and handing it over to an attendant, and is configured to be insertable / removable by a slide mechanism.

Reference numeral 13 denotes an access door (see FIG. 3), which is a double door that opens and closes the front of the housing of the cash processing apparatus 1. As shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG. It is attached so as to cover the metal machine 11, and is provided with a normal electromagnetic lock 14 and a storage electromagnetic lock 15 which are electromagnetic locks for locking and unlocking the access door 13.
The normal electromagnetic lock 14 and the retracted electromagnetic lock 15 of the present embodiment are electronic locks each provided with an electromagnetic solenoid for operating the electromagnetic lock, and prevent unexpected unlocking during a power failure or normal operation. Therefore, it is configured to unlock only when energized and to maintain the locked state when de-energized.

In FIG. 5, reference numeral 17 denotes a customer service unit, which accepts banknotes inserted by a staff member, separates and feeds the banknotes one by one, a stacking mechanism 17 b for stacking banknotes to be handed over to a staff member, and when a banknote is inserted. In addition, a slide-type shutter 18 that opens and closes the upper part of the customer service section 17 when the machine is taken out is provided.
Reference numeral 20 denotes a discrimination unit, which performs various discriminations on banknotes, such as a function for identifying authenticity, correctness, denomination, denomination, and the like of a conveyed banknote, and a function for detecting conveyance abnormality such as chaining and skewing. have.

Reference numeral 21 denotes a temporary storage unit, which is a banknote inserted into the customer service unit 17 and is a storage unit that accumulates and temporarily stores banknotes that are identified as genuine bills by the discrimination unit 20 and are identified as being able to be taken in. Are separated and fed one by one, and a stacking mechanism 21b for stacking the conveyed banknotes is provided.
Reference numeral 23 denotes a banknote storage, which is a safe for storing banknotes of sales proceeds, which are banknotes for which the police company has management authority (banknotes having second management authority), regardless of denomination, and collects and stores banknotes. A separating and accumulating mechanism 23a that separates and feeds out the banknotes being processed one by one, and transports a mechanical key 24a provided on the banknote storage door 24 of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 11 The banknotes in the banknote storage 23 can be taken out by unlocking with a key possessed by a staff member such as the above.

  Reference numerals 25 and 26 denote change storages, which are safes for storing banknotes of change reserves, which are banknotes that the store has management authority (banknotes of the first management authority), in denominations, and each accumulates banknotes. Separating and accumulating mechanisms 25a and 26a for separating and feeding out stored banknotes one by one, and managing a mechanical key 27a provided on a change storage door 27 of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 11 The banknotes in the change storage boxes 25 and 26 can be taken out by unlocking with a key possessed by an attendant such as a person.

  28 is a reject store, which is arranged below the change store 26, and is identified as a denomination by the discrimination unit 20 after confirming the deposit amount, and classified as sales and change reserve. A storage box for storing banknotes identified as reject banknotes at the time of storage that cannot be performed, and includes a stacking mechanism 28a for stacking the conveyed banknotes, and a key 27a provided on the change storage door 27 Is unlocked with a key held by a store clerk, so that banknotes in the reject box 28 can be taken out.

Reference numeral 30 denotes a conveyance path, which is a conveyance path that conveys the front and back sides of the banknotes with a pair of belts or rollers, and has a function of conveying the banknotes by connecting the above-mentioned parts. By opening the door 13, the transport path 30 can be accessed.
In addition, each branch portion of the transport path 30 is provided with a switching mechanism that switches the banknote transport direction using a switching blade (not shown) or the like.

  The change denomination banknotes of this embodiment are set to 5,000 yen banknotes (referred to as 5,000 tickets) and 1,000 yen banknotes (thousand tickets), and non-change denomination banknotes that are not used as change are 10,000. It is set to yen banknotes (10,000 tickets) and 2,000 yen banknotes (2,000 tickets). The change storage box 25 has a change reserve thousandth, and the change storage box has 5,000 change reserves. The banknote storage 23 stores non-change denominations of 10,000 and 2,000 tickets and banknotes of change denominations corresponding to the shortage of sales that cannot be applied with non-change denominations. .

  Moreover, the key 24a of the banknote storage door 24 and the key 27a of the change storage door 27 of the present embodiment are not the same key, and the banknotes stored in the banknote storage 23 are staff members of a police company having management authority. Only the lock 24a provided on the bill storage door 24 can be unlocked and accessed, and the bills stored in the change storages 25, 26 and the reject store 28 can only be accessed by the store personnel having the management authority. The key 27a provided on the change storage door 27 can be unlocked and accessed.

The storage unit 4 of the cash processing apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment accepts banknotes including the change processing of withdrawal of the change reserve, the change of the change of the denomination of the denomination, and the sales money collected from the register 2. A business process execution program having a function of executing business processes performed by the cash processing apparatus 1 such as a deposit process stored separately into reserves and sales is stored in advance.
In the storage unit 4, change denominations (5,000 and 1,000 tickets in the present embodiment) and non-change denominations (in the present embodiment, 10,000 and 2,000 tickets) are preset and stored, Corresponding to the clerk number, a qualification table storing operation qualifications such as withdrawal work, recovery work, etc., which is permitted to be performed by the clerk is preset and stored.

  Further, the storage unit 4 includes a deposit number count area for counting the bills identified by the discrimination unit 20 and accumulated in the temporary storage unit 21 by denomination, and the number of breakdowns of each of the sales proceeds and the change reserve (described later). Are counted, and a reject count area for counting the number of rejected bills stored in the reject box 28 is secured. A history information storage area is provided for each register number for storing a staff member number, a store number, a deposit date and time, a deposit amount, a withdrawal date, a withdrawal amount, a closing date and the like.

Note that the initial value of each count number in the deposit number count area and the reject number count area is set to “0”.
Below, the operation | movement of the cash processing apparatus 1 installed in the supermarket is demonstrated to an example about the operation | movement of the money_receiving | payment process for accommodating the banknote collect | recovered from the register | resistor 2 to the cash processing apparatus 1 of a present Example.

When the person in charge at the store turns on the cash processing apparatus 1 at the start of business before opening the store, the business process execution program stored in the storage unit 4 of the cash processing apparatus 1 is automatically started.
When the business process execution program is started, the control unit 3 starts operating the cash processing apparatus 1 in accordance with the business process execution program, and executes business processes such as withdrawal of change reserves in response to a request from the register 2 operator. To do.

Then, at the end of work, the operator of the register 2 brings the banknote in the register 2 to the cash processing apparatus 1 in order to store all the banknotes including the sales amount of the day stored in the register 2 in the cash processing apparatus 1. To do.
When the operator who brought the banknote in the register 2 presses the deposit button of the input unit 7, the control unit 3 of the cash processing apparatus 1 that has recognized this will display a clerk number or a register number on the display unit 6 on the screen of the display unit 6. When a card input request screen displaying a word prompting input of the card is displayed and the operator passes the attendant card through the card handling port 8a of the card handling unit 8, the control unit 3 causes the card handling unit 8 to Read information.

  The control unit 3 that has read the card information confirms the operation qualification of the operator with reference to the qualification table of the storage unit 4 based on the staff number, and when the operator is a person who is permitted to deposit money, When the access door 13 is housed, the electromagnetic lock 15 is energized to release the lock, and the sales amount input screen is displayed on the screen of the display unit 6 for prompting the sales amount to be input. Enter the sales amount of 2.

At this time, the normal-time electromagnetic lock 14 remains in a non-energized state, and the access door 13 is locked by the normal-time electromagnetic lock 14.
If the operator is not authorized to deposit, the fact is displayed on the screen of the display unit 6 and the process is terminated.
Recognizing the sales amount, the control unit 3 stores the card information and the sales amount in the storage unit 4 and opens the shutter 18 that closes the customer service unit 17 of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 11 so that the sales proceeds from the operator. And waits for the insertion of banknotes mixed with change reserve.

When the operator puts the banknote brought from the register 2 into the customer service unit 17, the control unit 3 waiting for the insertion of the banknote from the operator closes the shutter 18 of the customer service unit 17 and executes the deposit counting process. .
That is, the control unit 3 separates the banknotes thrown into the customer service unit 17 one by one by the separation mechanism 17a and feeds them to the transport path 30, and identifies the banknotes fed out by the transport path shown by a thick solid line in FIG. 20 is used to discriminate the denomination of banknotes, etc., and is conveyed to the temporary holding unit 21 while counting the number of moneys in the depositing number counting area of the storage unit 4, and is stored in the temporary holding unit 21 by the stacking mechanism 21 b. Accumulate.

In this case, in the case of rejected banknotes at the time of insertion, which are identified as unknown denominations due to foreign banknotes, extreme dirt, tape sticking, conveyance abnormality, etc. in the discrimination unit 20, the stacking mechanism 17b of the customer service unit 17 It is accumulated in the customer service section 17 and returned to the operator.
The control unit 3 that has finished collecting the inserted banknotes in the temporary storage unit 21 displays the number of denominations based on the banknote discrimination result and the total deposit amount on the screen of the display unit 6. The operator depresses the confirmation button of the input unit 7 and performs an operation for confirming the deposit amount.

Recognizing that the deposit amount has been finalized, the control unit 3 terminates the deposit counting process and executes a bill temporary stacking process.
That is, the control unit 3 gives priority to the non-change money type based on the sales amount stored in the storage unit 4 and the counting result in the deposit number counting area, and the shortage is compensated with the change money type to the sales amount. Calculate the number of the corresponding money type (referred to as the breakdown of the sales amount by money type), and the number of the money type corresponding to the amount of the change reserve obtained by subtracting the sales amount from the deposit amount (the number of change types of the change reserve) And the calculated number of breakdowns of the respective sales proceeds and change reserves are set as initial values of the count numbers in the breakdown count area of the storage unit 4.

  The control unit 3 that has calculated the number of types of sales and change reserves separates the banknotes in the temporary storage unit 21 one by one by the separation mechanism 21a and feeds them to the conveyance path 30, and is shown by a thick solid line in FIG. Depending on the transport route, the fed banknotes are transported to the discriminating unit 20 to discriminate the denominations of banknotes. If the discrimination result is a change-type denomination, refer to the number of breakdowns by type of sales. With the limit of the number of thousand tickets, the identified banknotes are transported to the change storage 26 as banknotes to be reserved for sales, and are collected in the change storage 25 by the separation and accumulation mechanism 26a. The number of thousand tickets that are transported to the storage box 25 and stored in the change storage box 25 by the separating and accumulating mechanism 25a as a change reserve, and the number of thousand tickets stored from the count of the number of thousand types of the breakdown type of the change reserve count area Decrease and count the number of breakdowns To update the number of counts of the area.

If the discrimination result is other than a thousand ticket, it is conveyed to the change storage 26 regardless of the sales proceeds and the change reserve, and is collected in the change storage 26 by the separation and accumulation mechanism 26a.
If the discrimination result is a reject banknote, it is conveyed to the reject store 28, stored in the reject store 28 by the stacking mechanism 28a, and the number of rejects is obtained by adding the number stored in the reject store 28 to the count number in the reject count count area. Update the count in the count area.

  The control unit 3 that accumulates banknotes of denominations other than a thousand as a change reserve in the change storage 26 separates the banknotes in the change storage 26 one by one by the separation and accumulation mechanism 26a and feeds them to the conveyance path 30. 8, when the fed banknote is transported to the discrimination unit 20 by the transport path indicated by a thick solid line in FIG. 8 to discriminate the denomination of the banknote, and the discrimination result is a denomination of the number of denominations of sales proceeds Is conveyed to the customer service unit 17 as a banknote to be allocated to sales, and is accumulated in the customer service unit 17 by the accumulation mechanism 17b. From the count number of the denomination of the number of denominations of the type of sales in the breakdown count area The number of stored denominations is reduced, and the count number in the breakdown number count area is updated.

  If the result of the discrimination is a change denomination, the banknote is used as a change reserve on the condition that the count of the denomination of the number of denominations in the breakdown of the sales amount in the breakdown count area is “0”. The denominations are transported to the temporary holding unit 21 as the banknotes to be allocated, accumulated in the temporary holding unit 21 by the stacking mechanism 21b, and stored from the denomination count of the number of denominations of the denominations of change reserves in the breakdown count area The count number in the breakdown count area is updated.

In this way, in this embodiment, banknotes whose deposit amount has been fixed are accumulated in the customer service unit 17 with priority on sales, and change reserves are accumulated in the temporary storage unit 21 for sales and change reserves. Are temporarily collected in the customer service unit 17 and the temporary storage unit 21 respectively.
At this time, the count number of the breakdown type of sales proceeds is all “0”, but when a reject banknote is generated, the count number of the breakdown type of the change reserve does not become “0”. Will exist.

In this case, since the denomination of the rejected banknote is once identified in the deposit counting process and stored in the reject store 28 disposed below the change store 26, the management authority becomes a store, and thereafter It can be handled as a change reserve by visual judgment or the like.
The control unit 3 that temporarily collects the banknotes allocated to the sales proceeds and the change reserve in the customer service unit 17 and the temporary storage unit 21, respectively, terminates the temporary accumulation process and executes the change reserve storage process.

  That is, the control unit 3 separates the banknotes of the change reserve money of the temporary storage unit 21 one by one by the separation mechanism 21a and feeds the banknotes to the transport path 30, and the banknotes fed out by the transport path shown by the thick solid line in FIG. If the result of the discrimination is a reject banknote, it is transported to the reject store 28 and stored in the reject store 28 by the stacking mechanism 28a. The count number in the reject count area is updated by adding the number stored in the reject box 28 to the count number.

If the discrimination result is other than the reject banknote, it is conveyed as a change reserve to the change storage 26 and stored in the change storage 26 by the separation and accumulation mechanism 26a.
In the provisional stacking process described above, the thousand tickets are already stored in the change storage 25, which is the storage of the thousand tickets, or are collected in the customer service section 17 as banknotes to be allocated to sales. Therefore, in the change reserve storage process, the thousand tickets are not identified, and only 5,000 tickets are stored in the change storage 26.

The control unit 3 storing the change reserve completes the change reserve storage process, and executes the banknote movement process allocated to the sales.
That is, the control unit 3 separates the banknotes allocated to the sales accumulated in the customer service unit 17 one by one by the separation mechanism 17a and feeds the bills to the transport path 30, and then feeds out the banknotes by the transport path indicated by the thick solid line in FIG. The banknotes are conveyed to the temporary storage unit 21 via the discrimination unit 20 and stacked on the temporary storage unit 21 by the stacking mechanism 21b.

In this case, the discrimination in the discrimination unit 20 is not performed, and even if a conveyance abnormality such as skewing occurs, the discrimination unit 20 does not handle it as a reject banknote and accumulates it in the temporary storage unit 21 as it is.
At the time when the banknotes allocated to the sales proceeds are moved to the temporary storage unit 21, the banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit 21 are handled as sales proceeds, and the management authority of those banknotes is transferred from the store to the police company. .

Note that the store has the authority to manage banknotes until the banknotes reserved for sales are moved to the temporary storage unit 21.
The control unit 3 that accumulates the sales proceeds in the temporary storage unit 21 terminates the movement process of the banknotes allocated to the sales proceeds, and executes the storage process of the sales proceeds.
That is, the control unit 3 deenergizes the access door 13 when the access door 13 is housed, and locks the access door 13 with the housed electromagnetic lock 15.

At this time, the normal-time electromagnetic lock 14 remains in a non-energized state, and the access door 13 is also locked by the normal-time electromagnetic lock 14.
After locking the access door 13 by the electromagnetic lock 15, the control unit 3 separates the banknotes of the sales accumulated in the temporary storage unit 21 one by one by the separation mechanism 21 a and feeds it to the conveyance path 30, as shown in FIG. 11. A banknote as sales proceeds is conveyed to the banknote storage part 23 via the discrimination part 20 by the conveyance path shown by a thick solid line, and is accommodated in the banknote storage part 23 by the separation and accumulation mechanism 23a.

In this case, the discrimination in the discrimination unit 20 is not performed, and even if a conveyance abnormality such as skewing occurs, it is stored as it is in the banknote storage unit 23 without being handled as a reject banknote.
Then, after confirming that all sales proceeds are stored in the banknote storage unit 23, the control unit 3 stores the history information in the history information storage area of the corresponding register number in the storage unit 4, and the access door 13. Is energized to unlock the electromagnetic lock 15 when stored.

  If a transport failure due to jam or the like occurs during the storage process of sales after the transfer of management authority, a staff member such as a store manager who does not have the authority to manage the sales proceeds with recovery work. Therefore, even if the access door 13 is opened, the access door 13 is locked by the electromagnetic lock 15 when stored, so that a store clerk without management authority cannot touch the banknote of the sales proceeds, and the store clerk It is possible to prevent fraud.

Moreover, all the banknotes conveyed by the conveyance path 30 after the movement to the temporary stacking unit 21 are banknotes for which the security company has management authority, and all previous banknotes including banknotes conveyed through the conveyance path 30 are all. Since the store is a banknote having management authority, the management authority of banknotes can be clearly distinguished, and the storage destination of banknotes and the like removed during the restoration work can be easily specified.
It should be noted that the recovery process for the conveyance failure that occurred during the sales money storage process is performed as follows.

  A staff member such as a maintenance person of the police company who has received a notification of the occurrence of a transport failure during the storage processing of sales proceeds presses the recovery button of the input unit 7 of the cash processing apparatus 1 and the card handling unit 8 When the card handling port 8a is passed, the control unit 3 reads the card information by the card handling unit 8 and refers to the qualification table in the storage unit 4 based on the clerk number of the read card information. If the maintenance person is a person who has been authorized to recover the sales in the storage process, the energized electromagnetic lock 15 and the normal electromagnetic lock 14 of the access door 13 are energized, The electromagnetic lock 15 for storage and the electromagnetic lock 14 for normal time are unlocked.

Thereby, the maintenance person in charge of the security company can open the access door 13 and perform the recovery work.
In cases other than the above-described storage processing for sales, the store has the authority to manage banknotes being processed, and the electromagnetic lock 15 for storage is unlocked. When the attendant card is passed through the card handling port 8a, the control unit 3 confirms the operation qualification of the attendant with reference to the qualification table of the storage unit 4 based on the read attendant number of the card information, In the case of a person who is permitted to perform a recovery work excluding the storage process of the sales proceeds, the normal electromagnetic lock 14 of the access door 13 is energized to unlock the normal electromagnetic lock 14, so that the repair work by the store staff can be performed. It becomes possible.

In this embodiment, the processing type is selected by the input button provided on the input unit 7. However, the touch panel input provided on the display unit 6, the communication input from the outside, and the input each time are not used in advance. Various correspondences such as a reference input by calling a value stored in the storage unit 4 are conceivable, and any input form may be used.
In the present embodiment, the card information is described as being read and input from the information recorded on the magnetic stripe, IC chip, etc. of the attendant card. However, the barcode information may be read and input. .

Furthermore, in the present embodiment, it has been described that the access door 13 is locked by the electromagnetic lock 15 during storage when starting the storage processing of sales, but the banknotes allocated to the sales from the customer service unit 17 to the temporary storage unit 21 are described. The storage electromagnetic lock 15 may lock the period from the start of the movement process until the end of the sales storage process.
Furthermore, in the present embodiment, it has been described that banknotes allocated to sales temporarily provisionally collected in the customer service unit 17 are moved to the temporary storage unit 21 and then stored in the sales proceeds. A switching mechanism that switches the conveyance direction of banknotes from the customer service unit 17 to the direction of the banknote storage 23 is provided at a branching portion between the conveyance path 30 leading to 20 and the conveyance path 30 leading from the discrimination unit 20 to the banknote storage 23. The banknotes allocated to the sales temporarily provisionally collected in the customer service unit 17 may be stored directly in the banknote storage 23 as sales.

In this case, the access door 13 is locked with the electromagnetic lock 15 during storage before the temporarily accumulated banknotes are fed out from the customer service unit 17.
As described above, in the present embodiment, a customer service unit that accepts the inserted banknotes in the cash processing apparatus that stores the banknotes that are input separately into change reserves and sales proceeds with different management authority, and transport Discriminating unit for discriminating the denomination of the banknotes made, temporary holding unit for temporarily holding banknotes discriminated by the discrimination unit, change storage for storing banknotes for change reserves, and banknotes for storing banknotes for sales proceeds A storage, a transport path for transporting banknotes, and an electromagnetic lock for storage that locks and unlocks the access door to the transport path are provided. Banknotes reserved for money are temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit, banknotes allocated for sales are temporarily stored in the customer service unit, and banknotes of change reserve temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit are stored in the change storage, and then the customer service unit When storing banknotes of sales temporarily collected in the banknote storage By locking the access door with an electromagnetic lock during storage, even when a transport failure due to jam or the like occurs during storage of sales after the transfer of management authority, management authority over sales is granted. Store personnel who do not have access cannot open the door, prevent store personnel without administrative authority from touching banknotes of sales proceeds, and prevent fraud by store personnel. It is possible to clearly distinguish the management authority of banknotes, and easily specify the storage destination of banknotes etc. removed during restoration work. As a result, the store attendant who does not have management authority over sales proceeds, even if a power outage occurs during the storage process for sales proceeds after management authority has been transferred. Not can be opened, it is possible to prevent that the clerk of the store that does not have administrative privileges touches the bill of sale proceeds.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory view showing a banknote depositing and dispensing machine according to the second embodiment.
In addition, the same part as the said Example 1 attaches | subjects the same code | symbol, and abbreviate | omits the description.
In the said Example 1, although the banknote which entrusts transportation to a police company, ie, the banknote of the 2nd management authority, was demonstrated to the example of a sale, it is in operation using the cash processing apparatus 1. The bills entrusted to the police company may be bills that are not used as change, that is, bills of non-change denomination (in this example, 10,000 tickets, 2,000 tickets: referred to as delivery money).

For this reason, in the banknote storage 23 of a present Example, as shown in FIG. 12, the banknote of the delivery which is a banknote (banknote of the 2nd management authority) which a police company has management authority, ie, 10,000 tickets and 2 Thousand tickets are all stored.
In the change storages 25 and 26, all the change denominations, which are banknotes for which the store has management authority (banknotes having the first management authority), are stored in denominations, as shown in FIG. The storage box 25 stores all the thousand denominations of change denominations, and the change storage box 26 stores all of the five thousand denominations of change denominations.

The storage unit 4 of the cash processing apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment accepts a banknote collected from the register 2 and a banknote collected from the register 2 as a process for withdrawing a change reserve, changing a denomination of a denomination, And a business process execution program having a function of executing business processes performed by the cash processing apparatus 1 such as a deposit process that is stored in a divided manner into banknotes for delivery.
In the storage unit 4, change denominations and non-change denominations are preset and stored as in the first embodiment, and a qualification table similar to that in the first embodiment is stored in advance.

Further, in the storage unit 4, a deposit number count area similar to that of the first embodiment is secured, and a history information storage area similar to that of the first embodiment is secured.
Note that the initial value of each count number in the deposit number count area is set to “0”.
Below, the operation | movement of the money_receiving | payment process for accommodating the banknote collect | recovered from the register | resistor 2 to the cash processing apparatus 1 of a present Example is demonstrated.

Since the operation up to the deposit counting process using the conveyance path indicated by the thick solid line in FIG. 13 in this embodiment is the same as that in the first embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.
Recognizing that the deposit amount has been finalized, the control unit 3 terminates the deposit counting process and executes a bill temporary stacking process.
That is, the control unit 3 separates the banknotes of the temporary storage unit 21 one by one by the separation mechanism 21a and feeds the banknotes to the conveyance path 30, and the fed banknotes to the discrimination unit 20 through the conveyance path indicated by a thick solid line in FIG. If the result of the discrimination is a change-type denomination, it is transported to the change storage 25, and the change storage 25 is moved to the change storage 25 by the separating and accumulating mechanism 25a. Store as. When the discrimination result is other than a thousand ticket, regardless of the denomination, it is transported to the change storage 26 and accumulated in the change storage 26 by the separation and accumulation mechanism 26a.

In addition, when a discrimination result is a reject banknote, it stores in the rejection store | warehouse | chamber 28 similarly to the said Example 1. FIG.
The control unit 3 that accumulates banknotes of denominations other than a thousand as a change reserve in the change storage 26 separates the banknotes in the change storage 26 one by one by the separation and accumulation mechanism 26a and feeds them to the conveyance path 30. 15, the fed banknote is transported to the discrimination unit 20 by the transport path indicated by the thick solid line in FIG. 15 to discriminate the denomination of the banknote. If the discrimination result is a non-change denomination, the banknote is delivered. The bills reserved for money are conveyed to the customer service unit 17 and accumulated in the customer service unit 17 by the accumulation mechanism 17b.

When the discrimination result is a change denomination, in the case of a change denomination, the banknote is transported to the temporary storage unit 21 as a banknote to be allocated for change, and is accumulated in the temporary storage unit 21 by the stacking mechanism 21b.
In this way, in this embodiment, the banknotes for which the deposit amount has been determined are classified into banknotes to be reserved for delivery and change reserves, and temporarily accumulated in the customer service unit 17 and the temporary storage unit 21 respectively.
The control unit 3 that temporarily accumulates the banknotes allocated to the delivery money and the change reserve in the customer service unit 17 and the temporary storage unit 21, respectively, ends the temporary accumulation process and executes the change reserve storage process.

  That is, the control unit 3 separates the banknotes of the change reserve of the temporary storage unit 21 one by one by the separation mechanism 21a and feeds them to the transport path 30, and the fed banknotes are transported by the transport path indicated by a thick solid line in FIG. It is conveyed to the discrimination unit 20 to discriminate the denomination of the banknote. If the discrimination result is a reject banknote, it is conveyed to the reject warehouse 28 and stored in the reject warehouse 28 by the stacking mechanism 28a.

If the discrimination result is other than the reject banknote, it is conveyed as a change reserve to the change storage 26 and stored in the change storage 26 by the separation and accumulation mechanism 26a.
In addition, since the thousand tickets are all stored as change reserves in the change storage 25 which is the storage of the thousand tickets in the temporary accumulation process, the thousand tickets are identified in the change reserve storage process. No, only 5,000 tickets are stored in the change storage 26.

The control unit 3 storing the change reserve completes the change reserve storage process and executes the banknote movement process allocated to the delivery.
That is, the control unit 3 separates the banknotes allocated to the delivery accumulated in the customer service unit 17 one by one by the separation mechanism 17a and feeds the bills to the transport path 30, and then feeds the banknotes by the transport path indicated by a thick solid line in FIG. The banknotes are conveyed to the temporary storage unit 21 via the discrimination unit 20 and stacked on the temporary storage unit 21 by the stacking mechanism 21b.

In this case, the discrimination in the discrimination unit 20 is not performed, and even if a conveyance abnormality such as skewing occurs, the discrimination unit 20 does not handle it as a reject banknote and accumulates it in the temporary storage unit 21 as it is.
At the time when the banknotes allocated for the delivery are moved to the temporary storage unit 21, the banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit 21 are handled as delivery funds, and the management authority of those banknotes is transferred from the store to the police company. .

Note that the store has the authority to manage banknotes until the banknotes reserved for delivery are moved to the temporary storage unit 21.

The control unit 3 that accumulates the delivery money in the temporary storage unit 21 terminates the movement process of the banknote allocated to the delivery money, and executes the delivery storage process.

That is, the control unit 3 locks the access door 13 with the electromagnetic lock 15 during storage and the electromagnetic lock 14 during normal operation in the same manner as in the first embodiment.
After the access door 13 is stored and locked by the electromagnetic lock 15, the control unit 3 separates the banknotes of the delivery accumulated in the temporary storage unit 21 one by one by the separation mechanism 21 a and feeds them to the conveyance path 30, as shown in FIG. The banknote as a delivery money is conveyed to the banknote storage part 23 via the discrimination part 20 by the conveyance path shown by a thick solid line, and is accommodated in the banknote storage part 23 by the separation and accumulation mechanism 23a.

In this case, the discrimination in the discrimination unit 20 is not performed, and even if a conveyance abnormality such as skewing occurs, it is stored as it is in the banknote storage unit 23 without being handled as a reject banknote.
Then, after confirming that all delivered banknotes are stored in the banknote storage unit 23, the control unit 3 stores the history information in the history information storage area of the corresponding register number in the storage unit 4, and the access door 13. Is energized to unlock the electromagnetic lock 15 when stored.

  If a delivery failure due to a jam occurs during the delivery storage process after this administrative authority has been transferred, a staff member such as a store manager who does not have administrative authority for the delivery will perform recovery work. Therefore, even if the access door 13 is opened, the access door 13 is locked by the electromagnetic lock 15 at the time of storage, so that a store clerk without management authority cannot touch the banknote of the delivery money, and the store clerk It is possible to prevent fraud.

Moreover, all the banknotes conveyed by the conveyance path 30 after the movement to the temporary stacking unit 21 are banknotes for which the security company has management authority, and all previous banknotes including banknotes conveyed through the conveyance path 30 are all. Since the store is a banknote having management authority, the management authority of banknotes can be clearly distinguished, and the storage destination of banknotes and the like removed during the restoration work can be easily specified.
It should be noted that the recovery processing for the transport failure that occurred during the delivery storage processing and the recovery processing for the transport failure in cases other than the delivery storage processing are performed in the same manner as in the first embodiment.

As described above, even when the banknote having the second management authority is a banknote of non-change denomination (banknote for delivery), the same effect as in the first embodiment can be obtained.
In each of the above embodiments, the cash processing apparatus is described as being used alone. However, as shown in FIG. 19, the processing for the cash processing apparatus 1 is performed on a server as a host apparatus that performs batch processing outside the store. A cash processing system connected via LAN or via direct connection may be used, or as shown in FIG. 20, a cash processing system connected using an ISDN line may be used.

The block diagram which shows the cash processing apparatus of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the front of the cash processing apparatus of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the side of the cash processing apparatus of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the operation display part of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the payment counting process of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the temporary accumulation | storage process of Example 1. FIG. Explanatory drawing which shows the temporary accumulation | storage process of Example 1. FIG. Explanatory drawing which shows the storage process of the change reserve of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the movement process of the banknote allocated to the sales proceeds of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the storage processing of the sales proceeds of Example 1 Explanatory drawing which shows the banknote depositing / withdrawing machine of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the payment counting process of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the temporary accumulation | storage process of Example 1. FIG. Explanatory drawing which shows the temporary accumulation | storage process of Example 1. FIG. Explanatory drawing which shows the storage process of the change reserve of Example 1. Explanatory drawing which shows the movement process of the banknote allocated to the delivery of Example 1 Explanatory drawing which shows the storing process of the delivery of Example 1 Explanatory drawing which shows the cash processing system of an Example Explanatory drawing which shows the other form of the cash processing system of an Example.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cash processing apparatus 2 Register 3 Control part 4 Memory | storage part 5 Operation display part 6 Display part 7 Input part 8 Card handling part 9 Printing part 10 Coin depositing / withdrawing machine 11 Banknote depositing / withdrawing machine 13 Access door 14 Normal time electromagnetic lock 15 Storage time Electromagnetic lock 17 Customer service part 17a, 21a, Separation mechanism 17b, 21b, 28a Accumulation mechanism 18 Shutter 20 Identification part 21 Temporary holding part 23 Banknote storage 24 Bill storage door 24a, 27a Key 23a, 25a, 26a Separation / accumulation mechanism 25, 26 Change Storage 27 Change Change Storage Door 28 Reject Storage 30 Transport Path

Claims (5)

In the cash processing apparatus for storing the inserted banknotes by dividing them into banknotes having the first management authority and banknotes having the second management authority,
Stores a customer service section that accepts inserted banknotes, a discrimination section that discriminates denominations of conveyed banknotes, a temporary storage section that temporarily holds banknotes identified by the discrimination section, and banknotes having a first management authority A change storage, a banknote storage for storing banknotes having a second management authority, a transfer path for transferring banknotes, and an electromagnetic lock during storage for locking and unlocking an access door to the transfer path. Prepared,
The banknotes thrown into the customer service section are discriminated by the discrimination section, the banknotes allocated to the banknotes having the first management authority are allocated to the temporary storage section, and the banknotes allocated to the banknotes having the second management authority are allocated to the customer service In each department,
After the banknote temporarily accumulated in the temporary storage unit is stored in the change storage as a banknote having the first management authority, the banknote temporarily accumulated in the customer service part is stored in the banknote storage with the second management authority. When storing as a cash processing apparatus, the access door is locked with the electromagnetic lock when stored. In the cash processing apparatus for storing the inserted banknotes by dividing them into banknotes having the first management authority and banknotes having the second management authority,
Stores a customer service section that accepts inserted banknotes, a discrimination section that discriminates denominations of conveyed banknotes, a temporary storage section that temporarily holds banknotes identified by the discrimination section, and banknotes having a first management authority A change storage, a banknote storage for storing banknotes having a second management authority, a transfer path for transferring banknotes, and an electromagnetic lock during storage for locking and unlocking an access door to the transfer path. Prepared,
Banknotes thrown into the customer service part are identified by the discrimination part and accumulated in the temporary storage part,
The banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit are moved to the change storage,
The banknote moved to the change storage is discriminated by the discrimination section, the banknote to be allocated to the banknote with the first management authority is allocated to the temporary storage section, and the banknote to be allocated to the banknote with the second management authority is Temporarily accumulate in the customer service department,
After the banknotes temporarily accumulated in the temporary storage unit are stored in the change storage as banknotes having the first management authority, the banknotes to be allocated to the banknotes having the second management authority temporarily accumulated in the customer service part are temporarily stored. Move to the
A cash processing apparatus that locks the access door with the electromagnetic lock when stored when storing the banknote moved to the temporary storage unit as a banknote with a second management authority in the banknote storage. . In claim 1 or claim 2,
The banknote with the first management authority is a banknote for change reserve, and the banknote with the second management authority is a banknote for sales. In claim 1 or claim 2,
The banknote having the first management authority is a change denomination banknote, and the second management authority banknote is a non-change denomination banknote. In any one of Claims 1 thru | or 4,
A cash processing apparatus, wherein the electromagnetic lock at the time of storage is locked when not energized.

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